Training analysis and training models

ABSTRACT

This article has the intention of giving impulses to a hopefully more creative and open-minded discussion of the function of training analysis and the kind of training model we seem to take for granted in the Scandinavian countries, the Eitingon model. I will consider some historical background data on this model as well as some historical data on the development in France which have created an alternative model of training. Especially in Sweden, there has been a stormy debate during the last years about the training analyst functions and some members have actually decided to leave our association because of this. I would like to try to shift focus from just a ‘yes-or-no-perspective’? to a broader question of our psychoanalytical society’s purpose and structure and how the training-model could sustain it.

KEYWORDS:

• Training analysis
• Eitingon model
• French model
• Quatrième Group

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1. I warmly thank Alain Gibeault, Patrick Miller and Joelle Picard who in a very helpful way have contributed with information.

2. I will use the word ‘candidate’ but the OPLF did not use that term because they considered it a too dependent and submissive term.

3. To quote the current regulations of the Swedish Psychoanalytical Association, it is said that our activities are based on the tradition of psychoanalytical theory initiated by Sigmund Freud and that it is a non-profit association for psychoanalysts. Our mission is to promote the development of psychoanalysis by educate psychoanalysts, through our members practicing psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and other applications of psychoanalytical theory. We shall also inform on psychoanalysis and its applications, develop theories and methods, develop our members competence and take care of the interest of psychoanalysis in relation to authorities, the public and mass media. We are associated with IPA and should follow their regulars and rules.

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Björn Sahlberg

Björn Sahlberg is a Member and President of the Swedish Psychoanalytic Society, training analyst and teacher of the Swedish Psychoanalytic Education.